Intro (instr) The Janus Curse When the high gloss is glistening, we get so swept up. With glass to the wall, we smash the hull at the christening, and if we go insane, at least we have something to blame. It was the janus curse that made the lava flow! Sometimes it haunts you from the grave and sometimes it lies in wait and no one truly deserves the janus curse. Eyes On The Weekend Eyes on the weekend Pepper The Padlocks Don’t get caught lifting a curse from the back of Sylvia’s hearse. Pepper the padlocks! Ego sells the show and it’s a fellers punk prop, i know, i know. It’s all just a story you know, even mynheer van gogh, just a story. It’s butterfly behavior, it’d do him no good to roll up in furs with girls on the hood. It’d do him no good, he’d be the first one found out. All of that talking and shouting just gives him away. I think it was something about building a little sphynx of his own or something like that. You can say hey, even the pyramids will fall but he just ignores it all. The Biggest Fool To Hit The Big Time Chosen by virtue of availability. Born into the swoon by virtue of geography. In the erratic brain, the past is always simple and the present is such a mess. He keeps meandering into the void of tragic circumstance, the biggest fool to hit the big time. Nothing Toulouse I’ve got nothing, nothing toulouse. SS atari and a knife to the noose. Just apply the ash and turn on the electric meat. I’m a physicist by chemical decree, pulling tides and fighting gravity. The Electric Shrimp Hag Cleet They can’t see the light, but they can feel the heat from this here electric shrimp hag cleet Pushing The Pushers We spewed from the tunnel and hit the gate like a net full of fish, so angry in the diesel plumes with carpal tunnel. Something was forming. You could feel it when the pressure dropped. The heat just kept rising from 500 cooked collars. We surged at the twitch of an elbow and soon formed a hurrycane. Nobody could see what was happening. We were safe in the center, free from shame, pushing on the pushers. Come As Your Own Burnt Offering He woke and descended the stairs to the basement, put on some clothes and grabbed the bag. All of the things he may need are in there, even some bandaids and floss. Mind the gap. The first will be last. Come in as your own burnt offering. Throw up your hands and stand in the street for a bigger swath of pink. Eat the turnbuckle and if that doesn’t help, put wings in repose like silent wheels, tongue tied and protected. Zig Zag Kids we are just excited, what else to expect? We are not cold lampries attached to your neck. We are just a city laying out roads. A candle in the catacombs. ponce de leon busting through the fronds. Want something to fight for? Zig Zag Kids We are just excited, what else to expect? We are not cold lamping attached to your neck. We are just a city laying out roads. Just Like A Horse Lover Well i guess i was insane. At least, that’s what your face said when i opened up the brain and let the lava flow. It’s blueprint blues. We’re losing by design, baby. The crack’s in the foundation and we’re boozing by the billions.

Deep Submarine Night Through frenzied days filled with deafening clatter, we worry, wonder, and take out the trash. Beyond the lights and the temporary matters, there is a deep submarine night. The choir ripples with thinly veiled fright. Twenty voices with too many choices, but together they’ve got one song to sing: There is a deep submarine night. And when the night comes, it comes without judgement, immersing the good and the bad. Erasing the lines and erasing the time till i’ll have to be leaving. I may have to feel my way home. There is us and the passing shapes of others. Apart from you, it’s just dust and fading colors. Walk with me till our eyes adjust to the deep submarine night. Farmers In The Rain Shake off the rust and throw out everything you’ve stained. Forgive the dust like farmers in the rain. You can dance and stomp on that pile of ashes, but everybody chokes when you kick up all your crashes. Smallest Places Make believe ghosts and faces fit in the smallest places. That’s the way i play. In between words and phrases, the air falls and traces, chasing the ghosts away. Make believe ghosts and faces fit in the tiniest places. That’s the way i play. In between words and phrases, the air falls and traces, chasing the ghosts away. Half Of Something All i ever wanted was a place to return to, said the beekeeper to the bee and the bee said: we like to fly around. Same old you, same old me, brand new town. If you’re gonna let me down, let me down easy, said the anchor to the ship and the ship said: I’ll always pull you up. I don’t care if we drift a while. Even if we never land, the sight of you is the only home i know. As the flag danced to the wind whispered song, the wind stopped and wondered: have i stayed too long? Just keep that coming, said the flag, i only fly when you’re around. Half of something and now you’ve got me started. The Curtains Promenade (Instr) Tangled Capital A bit of baked earth, fired as by some greater sun. As though the gesture of a girl’s hand had survived it; reaching for nothing, from its feeling leading toward no object, touching only itself like finertips on chin. We lift and keep turning these same few figures; we can almost grasp the reason they’ve endured, - but we’re only meant to cling more deeply and wonderingly to that which was and smile: just a bit more clearly perhaps than the year before. You’ve got fall rigt back to that tangled capital Jimmy The Electric Meat The life electric hangs on every move. With every dash the blood sugar burns. When you’re Jimmy the electric meat, everything you hear turns a light on. Did he mean to use those words? I think she has a master plan. Or was is just the right circumstances?It really doesn’t matter to me. She Put the Love In Everyone Who could’ve known that the sword never really breaks the stone? How will they know it was you when time sweeps away the clues? How will they know? Dear Vesta, you put the love in everyone. You can never disappear. You’re hidden deep beneath everything like a hot mountain spring. And Vesta, i am sorry, a stumble can change everything. I wish i had control. You put the love in everyone and i’ll make sure they know. She put the love in everyone. It’s still there in all of us. She put the love in everyone. The Royal Child’s Theme (Instr) Waiting For The Waves Anchored to the ground. Recoil-ready and staring at the weather. Carbon copies all around waiting for the waves to brng the tide. The Stabilizers I came to you with me on my mind. Soon I was wiser. I’m nothing without the stabilizers. Sheriff, what will we do when these bones are old and good for glue? The chairman says it’s getting better all the time, but you know his happiness depends on mine. Father, there’s nowhere to hide. Did you say you still had connections on the inside? Doctor? What can be done? I already tried that. Can i get a refill? Captain, we’re heading south. Man over board fading the vox right out. Kid Yourself Abeline She defined herself right out of it again and of course the scars and stars will agree. Please, go ahead and kid yourself. Pretend you’re the one. It’s all made up anyway, so put down those charts and breathe in. Take your time. Do it all in your mind. The only thing you’re needing is believing. The rest will fall in line. And Abeline, better learn to laugh at yourself. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha E.D.I.T.H. Edith, i’ve got something to say. I don’t want you to take it the wrong way, but there’s an evil doppleganger in the house, and i think i’m going to get the hell out of here.

The Stabilizers (featuring Flexxehawk) Came to you with me on my mind, etc etc Summertime Sabbattical (Instr) Didn’t Know I didn’t know I was upside down till the blood rushed to your face. Didn’t know I was off the ground till I saw those power lines. From sugar mountaintops, the only way is down. Baby, we’d better step outside and have a good look around.The Carter Hengood Story When fine turns into fuck you, i’ve always run off for the glue and crushed myself beneath the microscope looking for brains and isotopes, tieing myself to the wall and planting your prints in the hall. We’ve all had those dream beatings where you really mess someone up and wake up and collapse in a heap, showing the world what you’re made of while laying fetal and fast asleep. You just got a let it feed to capacity. Oh no, you’ve just got to let it all go. And It’s so good to know. It’s good to know, it’s good to know and it’s good to hear from me, and you won’t believe, won’t believe, but i’ll leaving soon. And I won’t con it out, it’s not worth it. and no, it won’t insult. There will be other things. Other things always come around. etc etc I’d be air, i’d be a vehicle off to point B and back again, running up and down escher stairs. I’d belong to nothing and then not for long so i’ll keep on going on and hope that someone is hating this song. The Immaculate Cut And Toxic Information I’ve got no expectations now. There’s something in the way you annihilate. A strange comfort in the completeness of absolute destruction. There’s a kindness about you. No prophecies or hauntings from the grave. The immaculate cut and toxic information. who is who? I don’t know. Foresight, hindsight, evil lights, i don’t want em. you’ll always be a part of my life. Singing Along When i hear the whale calls from 41st and Falls, i’m halfway to the ground, singing along to some squirler patrol song. Ahhhhh, come pick me up. Come Pick Me Up Come pick me up butt dance butt dance Let’s Do One For The Captain I think we need take some time to think about what you do, so let met take off your shoes and sing you a line or two. I know you’ve been stuck in the weeds and that’s a pretty shitty place to be so I want you to take today to say “this one is for me” while we sing this birthday song. Yeah, let’s do one for the captain. He’ll pull us all through by and by. You make so many good things happen. I want you to sit right down and think about that and then get your ass back to work. There’s always more work for the captian cause work’s the thing that gets him through. I remember once he told me “go ahead and crack the whip” and he’s told me so many things now, but that’s one thing i won’t forget. Black Curtains On The Muppet Show (demo) Figs and Wigs (demo) At The Colliseum Dream, dream, dream dream dream

Fourteen songs about baltimore, love, getting dirty, cleaning up, procrastination, conflict, escape plans, giant squid, crackers, flamethrower fantasies, and all the other daily realities.